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Alta.

Alta. is the abbreviation of Alberta.

Meaning of Alberta

Proper noun

Alberta

  1. A province in western Canada. Capital: Edmonton. Largest city: Calgary.
  2. Former name of Rockwood: an unincorporated community in Imperial County, California, United States.
  3. A female given name from the Germanic languages, masculine equivalent Albert.
    • Alberta is more like a man's name than any other name that comes from a men's, more than Georgianna which is just like a magnolia blossom or Henrietta which most people change to Etta or Geraldine which nobody ever thinks of coming from a man's Irish name like Gerald. Alberta also sounds sort of...1936, George Weller, Clutch and Differential, Ayer, published 1970, →ISBN, page 196
  4. A surname.

Questions about Alta.

What is Alta. the abbreviation of?
Alta. is the abbreviation of Alberta.

Words near Alta. in the dictionary

  1. Alta Loma
  2. Alta Sierra
  3. Alta Vista
  4. alta-male
  5. alta-males
  6. Alta.
  7. Altadena
  8. Altai
  9. Altai Krai
  10. Altai kray
  11. Altai Republic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Alta. (page history and authors); Alberta (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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